Sentence examples for on minor steps from inspiring English sources

Prisoners of farm lobbies, negotiators could only agree on minor steps toward free agricultural trade.

The Federal Reserve looked set to make a fresh effort to invigorate the faltering U.S. recovery on Wednesday, though only minor steps were expected.

"Even early progress, even minor steps, will require an enormous amount of work on the part of the administration – work that, as far as I'm told, has not yet been prepared".

So those are just two minor steps and part of the history of the country.

Some minor steps may have been skipped above.

The settlement is "one less thing to be negative on BP about and a minor step in the right direction toward the rehabilitation of BP," said Iain Armstrong, an equity analyst at the investment manager Brewin Dolphin in London.

As president of the Union, he pioneered a debate on equalizing the age of consent for gays and straights -- no minor step in 1980.

Although gathering more data may seem like a minor step, over time it can have a big impact — on policy making and on the phenomenon that is being tracked.

The question of denying social service benefits to friends of terrorism is a minor step.

An initial minor step would be to adopt the long-overdue legislation required by the resolutions.

One minor step we should take is normalizing global recognition of landmark days in history such as the International Day of Peace (observed annually on September 21).